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The closest and most well-known Buddhist holy place to Suhua is Putuo Mountain, which is located on a small island among the 1390 islands of the Zhoushan Archipelago. known as.

Early in the morning, Meng Huo accompanied Li Qin to Mount Putuo. They were accompanied by two daughters, Shen Jie, and a dozen bodyguards in black.

"The bodyguards are too ostentatious, let's forget about it." When he left Meng's house, Meng Huo once wanted to decline these bodyguards to follow, but the old lady insisted on doing so, and finally he couldn't shirk and brought these bodyguards here.

They only ate some steamed buns on the way, and it was not yet eight o'clock in the morning when they arrived at Putuo Mountain. However, after arriving at this famous mountain, Meng Huo finally understood why the old lady insisted on asking bodyguards to follow them—because there were too many people.

Just after landing from the pier, there are dense figures at a glance, stretching up the mountain like ants.

"As expected of a Buddhist holy place, there are so many people..." Meng Huo was dumbfounded. It's not even eight o'clock in the morning. When did these people come? Could it be that many people stayed here in the middle of the night last night, waiting for dawn to worship Buddha?

"Don't be surprised, there will be a wave of worshiping Buddha every New Year." Alice was not surprised at all, and said flatly: "This is the dojo of Guanyin Bodhisattva, and it is even more popular among the popular ones. We must be mentally prepared to spend a day here .”

Mount Putuo is said to be the teaching place of Guanyin Bodhisattva. There are many famous temples on this mountain, and the landscape is as high as dozens. However, even if you don’t visit the scenic spots, Buddhist worshipers will not miss any temples, watching the crowds in front of you , Alice felt that half a day could not complete the task at all.

"Master, we can arrange a shortcut." At this time. A bodyguard beside Meng Huo said suddenly.

Meng Huo turned his head in surprise: "Is it okay?"

"No problem, Madam has already explained, if necessary. We can notify the management agency here." The bodyguard nodded: "Ordinary artists and stars will arrange shortcuts, even if they don't use your name. Miss Shen Jie can also enjoy this treatment."

"Then..." Meng Huo was about to agree, but Li Qin interrupted.

"No!" The mother glared at Meng Huo: "Prayer to Buddha requires sincerity, we don't take shortcuts."

Meng Huo's face suddenly collapsed, he didn't want to squeeze the buns here at all - but he had to listen to Li Qin's words, seeing his mother walking up the mountain by herself, Meng Huo had no choice but to go with the others Then, follow the flow of people and walk up the mountain.

They are quite eye-catching,

Both Shen Jie and Meng Huo did some dressing up. What is even more surprising is Alice. Although she has a black hair and has a prominent figure, she will not be associated with the female president of the Phoenix Company by anyone.

"how did you do it?"

Shen Jie and Li Qin walked in front, Meng Huo and Alice walked a little behind them, surrounded by bodyguards. He looked at Alice's hair curiously, knowing that it was not dyed hair, because Alice never left Meng's house from yesterday to today, and he never heard of any barber shop in Meng's house.

"Are you talking about that?" Alice brushed her black hair and said with a smile, "It's a wig."

"Wig?" Meng Huo was even more surprised. He looked at Alice's head. I didn't think it was too big - since this black hair was a wig, where did her original long blonde hair go?

"You cut your hair?"

"Can't you?" Alice turned her head to look at him and said with a smile, "You've never seen me with short hair, have you? I'll show you tonight, maybe you'll like it better."

Meng Huo suddenly felt a little regretful. He didn't expect Alice to actually cut her hair, but in fact, he had always liked her beautiful long golden hair, and when he heard that she had cut her hair short, he was rather disappointed.

Alice giggled: "Your expression is too obvious."

"Don't worry, I didn't cut my hair." She continued, pointing under the black hair: "My hair is hidden in it!"

Meng Huo was a little suspicious: "Really?"

"Of course it's true." Alice nodded. Although her appearance didn't look much different, she did hide her hair. In fact, this is not a difficult thing to do, many actors will have this dressing skill. The monks in TV dramas generally don't really shave their heads, but the audience can't tell.

Even with hair, he can perfectly dress up as a monk. It couldn't be easier to wear a wig to hide your identity - cross-dressing skills have become very sophisticated these days.

"Aunt Qin, where are we going first?" At this time. Shen Jie in front asked about Li Qin.

"Let me see……"

This is also the first time for Li Qin to come here, but she has made sufficient preparations. Not only did she bring maps and tourist brochures, but she also brought some things that looked like notes. Seeing her flipping through a note, Meng Huo walked away. I went over and looked at it, and found that the route of the visit was described in a very simple way, and elementary school students would not go wrong after reading it.

"Is this Teacher Hua Meng's note?" Meng Huo remembered the handwriting.

"Well, I heard that after we came to Suhua for the Chinese New Year, she introduced me to worship Buddha here." Li Qin explained that Hua Meng once visited Mount Putuo for her children during the carnival, and it was said to be effective.

Of course, Meng Huo didn't really believe in the usefulness of this kind of worshiping Buddha. It's not that he didn't believe in Buddha. But these so-called famous mountains and holy places are now profit-making organizations. Is it really useful for tourists to spend money to worship Buddha?

He is skeptical, thinking that worshiping Buddha is nothing more than people's self-hypnosis.

"Let's go to Puji Temple first."

Li Qin had already found the target and led Shen Jie there.

Puji Temple, also known as Qian Temple, is located in the south of Baihua Mountain, under Lingjiu Peak. It is the main temple dedicated to Guanyin. There are Dayuantong Hall, Tianwang Hall, and Sutra Library in the temple. There are 357 halls, halls, buildings, and pavilions in total. The Dayuantong hall is the main hall of the whole temple, known as the "living hall", where the 8.8-meter-high Pilu Guanyin is enshrined.

Meng Huo and his party bought tickets at the gate of the temple, then lined up and walked in. The process of worshiping Buddha here is a bit different from what he imagined. Meng Huo’s impression of worshiping Buddha should be to kowtow to the Buddha statue, draw lots, say his prayers, etc.—but here, there is no need to pray, as long as the family name is reported That's it.

Li Qin reported to Meng's family, and Shen Jie also reported to her family. When it was Alice's turn, she refused.

"I won't pray, let's go to other places earlier!" Alice said. This was the first temple, but it was already past ten o'clock in the morning after Shen Jie's procedure was finished.

Li Qin was a little curious: "Aren't you going to help your family say goodbye?"

"I don't really believe in these things." Alice shook her head: "It's better to ask for others than for yourself. Our family has always been safe like this."

Meng Huo was taken aback by her answer. He turned his head to look at Li Qin, thinking that she would be angry, but he didn't expect that after listening to Alice's words, Li Qin seemed very tolerant: "It's okay, I have my own opinions. If you don’t say goodbye, don’t say goodbye.”

She didn't make it hard for Alice, after living in the big city for several years. Li Qin's views have changed a lot, and she is not a Buddhist, so she thinks Alice's personality is fine. But in this way, Li Qin felt that bringing Alice by her side was making her suffer - since people don't want to worship Buddha, why should she follow him?

After leaving Puji Temple, Li Qin said to Meng Huo, "Forget it, how about it, you and Alice go back first, and Shen Jie and I can just stay here."

Meng Huo was stunned: "Is it possible?"

"Are you bored anyway?" Li Qin asked with a smile, what was Meng Huo thinking. She could see through it at a glance: "Just one of the worshiping family here, I will help you and your grandma to ask for a lottery, you don't have to wait for me."

Meng Huo looked at Shen Jie. Shen Jie nodded: "I also want to ask my parents to sign, and I will ensure Aunt Qin's safety."

With the assurance from this girl who might be more tyrannical than a tiger, Meng Huo was naturally relieved. He left his bodyguards to the two of them, and then walked down the mountain with Alice and returned to downtown Suhua ahead of schedule.

"Are we going directly to Meng's house?" Alice asked.

"No, I want to go to the big bookstore." Meng Huo shook his head, since he had nothing to do when he returned to Meng's house, he might as well go to the bookstore. There just happened to be a new book out there.

During the Spring Festival holiday, Phoenix Company did not carry out any major activities. However, the two adapted novels related to Meng Huo were published by Longteng Company and were officially released in bookstores in major cities the day before New Year's Eve. Meng Huo has not read those two books yet.

"And I happened to be looking for some paper materials." Meng Huo added. His dissertation encountered a bottleneck, so he could just go to the bookstore to buy some materials.

"Speaking of which, you are actually writing a thesis!" Alice remembered Meng Huo's holiday activities. He temporarily put aside his work and comics, but he still found time to write a thesis every night, and now he has completed one. . It can be seen that Meng Huo wanted to finish all the papers as soon as possible and free himself from his studies.

The nearest big bookstore is less than ten minutes away from the two of them. This is a comprehensive book city, its full name is 'Bai Ya Book City', and it looks like a commercial plaza on the outside.

"..." Alice, who had just got off the car, was stunned looking at the screen on the wall outside the 'square'. Meng Huo walked a few steps and found that she hadn't followed, so he turned around and asked, "What's the matter?"

"I was thinking..." Alice came back to her senses and said to Meng Huo, "Even if you are on vacation, you won't let the world be quiet!"

On the wall outside Baiya Bookstore, the most popular book advertisements are flashing on a large screen composed of countless small screens. Book cover images of different colors and styles roll over the screen, giving people a gorgeous feeling.

However, these advertisements have changed over and over again, but they all have one thing in common, that is the name of the original work in the upper left corner of the cover——He Xi.

"I thought you only published two books." Alice smiled wryly.

"I only published two books." Meng Huo nodded, ""Shakugan no Shana" and "ad"."

"But your "ad" is not a book at all, okay?" Alice pointed to the screen and said, one, two, three... "ad" has more than a dozen covers, this is a work, but not In a novel, each character branch is published separately, and each heroine has a cover, so there are more than a dozen books in the end!

With more than a dozen books published at the same time, with such a huge momentum, does Meng Huo need other writers to survive?

"It's not up to me." Meng Huo sighed. He didn't want to make so much at first, but after discussing it, Longteng Company decided that it would be better to publish it separately than to combine all the branches—Meng Huo could only agree. up.

"Pick up a bargain and act like a good boy. Look at this advertisement... Your books must be very popular..." Alice grabbed Meng Huo and walked towards the bookstore: "Come on, let's go in and have a look."

However, the scene in the book city is even more astonishing. Advertisements of "ad" can be seen everywhere on the aisles and escalators, and many passers-by passing by Alice and Alice still hold images of different characters in "ad" banner.

"Excuse me, what is this? Where did it come from?" Alice stopped a girl and asked.

"The souvenir of "ad" is over there." The girl pointed in the direction with a smile, and said, "It's still during the event, as long as you buy Mr. He Xi's novel, you will be given a corresponding banner."

She took a few novels out of her bag and said, "I bought three different ones, so three flags."

Alice thanked her, and it turned out that this is the book city doing activities. From the advertisements outside and the activities in the bookstore, she was 100% sure that Meng Huo's novels must be very popular, and they were extremely popular.

She quickened her pace, and then found the place where the novels were being sold - that was the Central Bookstore of Baiya Bookstore. When the two arrived, hundreds of people had already gathered there, waiting in line to pay the bill.

And without exception, these people are holding "ad" and "Shakugan no Shana" in their hands, and there are only a handful of other books.

"What did you do?" Alice asked Meng Huo.

Meng Huo didn't understand, so he said, "What."

"..." Alice didn't know how to answer, but she didn't think it was right. The novel had been released for several days, and the atmosphere in the book city was still so strong. Previously, Phoenix Company had predicted He Xi's novel.

"There must be tricks in these novels."

Alice felt itchy in her heart, but instead of continuing to question Meng Huo, she decided to solve the puzzle by herself.

Soon she found the novels placed in the most conspicuous place in the book city. The novels were lined up in a row, and they looked very beautiful. Alice picked up the "AD" branch novel titled "Happiness Everywhere". The heroine of this book is Kotomi Ichinose, and "Happiness Everywhere" refers to her Mitsuyu's name.

After turning a few pages, Alice immediately found what she wanted——

No wonder the popularity of these novels is still so high a few days after they are released, it is completely different from other novels! (to be continued)